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    Lightbulb Enabling Network Repositories / Fixing Corrupt sources.list File

    This is a how to guide to enable Network Repositories, if during the setup of Kali you didn't:

    • Have Internet access for whatever reason (e.g. no drivers, incorrect IP/subnet/proxy, it dropped etc)
    • Didn't select to use them


    ... then network repositories would NOT have been added.
    This will be an issue when you try and use 'apt-get install <package_name>' to install a new package or upgrade current ones.

    The issue
    Here are some screens, showing signs of the network repositories will not be configured to be used.

    Images are from a "Text Install". Graphical install will have the same message(s) displayed.

    During your install, you must select here to use it (next screen will ask for proxy information - if it's required):

    Images are from a "Text Install". Graphical install will have the same message(s) displayed.


    Solution
    In a terminal window, paste the following:
    Code:
    cat <<EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list
    deb http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib
    deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security/ sana/updates main contrib non-free
    EOF
    
    apt-get update
    Troubleshooting
    If you are still facing issues using network repositories, please share the output of:
    Code:
    curl -sI http://http.kali.org/README
    This is because http.kali.org and security.kali.org are load balancers. They will automatically redirect you to the closest mirror based on your GeoIP.

    Example output:
    root@kali:~# curl -sI http://http.kali.org/README
    HTTP/1.1 302 Found
    Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 14:52:29 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Debian)
    X-MirrorBrain-Mirror: ftp.free.fr
    X-MirrorBrain-Realm: country
    Link: <http://http.kali.org/README.meta4>; rel=describedby; type="application/metalink4+xml"
    Link: <http://ftp.free.fr/pub/kali/README>; rel=duplicate; pri=1; geo=fr
    Link: <http://mirror.pcextreme.nl/kali/README>; rel=duplicate; pri=2; geo=nl
    Link: <http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/kali/README>; rel=duplicate; pri=3 geo=de
    Location: http://ftp.free.fr/kali/README

    Vary: Accept-Encoding
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    root@kali:~#
    ...as well as the exact error message(s) that's on screen.
    Without both bits of information, it's hard to know which mirror is having issues (and what the issues are!)


    Useful links


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    Last edited by g0tmi1k; 2015-09-04 at 11:50.
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